Itachi's Promise: Fifty-four

"Itachi, talk to us," Kisame said, watching Itachi and trying to get him to say something, anything.

"Sakura, owes me a sharingan," Orochimaru told Itachi, as he stood in the doorway of Itachi's hospital room.

"Sakura, doesn't owe you…anything," Itachi shouted, drifting off to a whisper as he knew exactly where Sakura was.

Itachi jumped from the bed, opened the closest that held his now clean uniform and gathered it up in his arms. Itachi darted into the bathroom, changed and stepped out looking at the Akatsuki.

"I know where Sakura is," Itachi said; the Akatsuki stared at each other and then at Itachi.

"Itachi, Sakura is dead," Kisame told Itachi.

"Yeah, and her corpse ran away from me as I was about to bury it," Itachi replied, the Akatsuki thought Itachi was insane.

"Itachi, she is dead," Pein repeated, Itachi looked at Pein and shook his head.

"Sakura, isn't dead," Itachi said.

"Itachi, she is," Pein insisted, Itachi shook his head continuously.

"No, she is alive," Itachi repeated.

"She isn't," Pein said.

"She is alive," Itachi screamed, Kisame tapped Pein on the shoulder before he went to say anything more.

"Pein, he isn't lying," Kisame said, knowing that Itachi was sure in his own mind that Sakura was alive and that he knew where she was.

Pein and Kisame looked back at Itachi, to find him completely gone.

"What do you propose Kisame, follow him?" Pein asked.

"Yes," Kisame replied.

Madara's Base

Sakura was once again forced into Madara's sleeping quarters; he closed and locked the door behind them before leaving her side and walking over to his bed and lying painfully down. Sakura sat down on one of the two couches and watched as Madara tried to make himself comfortable on the bed with his injuries. Madara groaned in pain, Sakura stood and walked to Madara's side. Sakura lifted her hands to Madara's chest and allowed her healing energy to enter Madara's body, after a moment Sakura changed the energy to a damaging energy and began to feed it into his body. Madara left the change and grabbed Sakura's wrists.

"Madara, let me go. You know I'm one of the only people who can undo what has happened to you," Sakura told Madara.

"I don't want to die yet," Madara told Sakura.

"Why not, haven't you lived long enough?" Sakura questioned.

"Not yet, I need to destroy the Leaf Village for what they have done," Madara answered, Sakura sighed and pinch the bridge of her nose.

"Madara, just forget it. I nor anyone else will let you destroy the village," Sakura told Madara.

"No one can kill me, so in the end I will always win," Madara answered.

Sakura walked away from Madara and sat down on the couches again; Sakura pulled her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her. Sakura closed her eyes and she was soon asleep; as she slept Madara laid a blanket on her and left the room. Madara sat on the steps leading up to the second floor; Madara watched the front door knowing that someone was going to find him and soon. Madara must have sat on the steps for hours until, Sakura walked into his view at the bottom of the steps.

"Madara?" Sakura asked, Madara turned his attention from everything and pinned it completely on Sakura.

"Yes," Madara answered.

"Nothing…no…something…um," Sakura began, Madara watched Sakura as she was making a complete fool of herself.

Sakura stopped talking and took a breath in, Madara waited for her to start again. Sakura glanced away for a second, then back at Madara.

"Why do you hate the village?" Sakura blurted out.

"You're going to need to sit down Sakura," Madara said, patting the steps beside him.

Sakura walked up the steps towards Madara; Sakura stopped when she reached the same step as Madara and sat down beside him.

"What exactly do you want to do you want to know?" Madara asked.

"Everything," Sakura replied, turning her body towards Madara and laying her hands gently on her lap before waiting for Madara to begin.

"For the start?" Madara asked

"Yes," Sakura said firmly.

Sakura didn't dare interrupt Madara as he spoke, Sakura's whole attention was on Madara and his attention was on her letting her what exactly happened. He didn't leave out how he had killed of many important ninjas and how he had once begin a traitor of the Leaf Village. Nor did he omit the mention of his entanglement with the Haruno clan and Sakura's great grandmother, Sakura smiled when he mentioned the Haruno clan for the first time and she learnt things about the clan she had yet to know. Madara finished his long story with a sigh and Sakura tilted her head to the side and remembered Madara's story.

"Madara, I'm sorry," Sakura whispered, barely able to keep her tears from completely falling.

"No need to be sorry, Sakura I'm soon going to have my revenge," Madara replied, standing up and walking down the steps, leaving Sakura sitting on the steps.

"Madara, please just…" Sakura began.

"Sakura, I need revenge," Madara told Sakura, Sakura stood from where she had sat and faced Madara.

"Your scared of dying," Sakura shouted; Madara was right in front of Sakura and grabbed hold of her shoulders.

"I'm not scared of anything," Madara growled.

"Yes, you are. You're scared of dying," Sakura whispered, Madara threw Sakura off the steps and into the nearest wall.

Sakura landed harshly on the floor, she sat up slowly and looked at Madara. Tears stung Sakura's eyes, as her vision blurred from the tears.

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